trustingness

Best of all, she could show her characters navigating back and forth between these two moods, struggling to maintain their trustingness in a world without illusion.

Back on Vicuna, he says, convicted white-collar criminals, defilers of trustingness, had their ears plugged up, so their souls couldn't get out.

One of Kobke's friends was the landscape painter Frederik Sodring, in whom Kobke saw, in Mr. Schwartz's words, "what Danish writers of an earlier time, at least, listed as national characteristics: openness, conviviality, trustingness."